Feedback request: Orchis mascula (90709_830)

[qgroom]

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Specimen #279884

Taxon:	Orchidaceae: Orchis mascula (L.) L. ("Early-purple Orchid")
Filed in taxon folder:	Orchidaceae: Orchis mascula (L.) L. ("Early-purple Orchid")
Collected by:	Arthur Wallis
Collection date:	1835
Locality:	Great Britain, VC19 North Essex, Springfield, TL715085, in pratis et pascuis
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	30-07-22617
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	The Salep is made from this species which is very useful in sea scurvey, diarrhoea, dysentery etc. Sheet may be associated with Arthur Wallis - who produced a paper on the rarer plants of the Chelmsford area.

Documented by CLL following initial work by qgroom on 4^th October 2009.

Edit history

date	user	change
01/06/2010	keith barnett	Deleted locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Springfield
01/06/2010	keith barnett	Added locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Springfield, in pratis et pascuis
26/07/2010	CLL	Deleted note: The Salep is made from this species which is very useful in sea scurvey, diarrhoea, dysentery etc
26/07/2010	CLL	Added note: The Salep is made from this species which is very useful in sea scurvey, diarrhoea, dysentery etc. Sheet may be associated with Arthur Wallis - who produced a paper on the rarer plants of the Chelmsford area.
26/11/2010	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Springfield, in pratis et pascuis
26/11/2010	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC19 Springfield, in pratis et pascuis TL715085 (place)
26/11/2010	oldnick	Added collector: Arthur Wallis

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User comments about this sheet

qgroom wrote

The orchid has the name Orchis mascula in H@H it is labled Orchis morio, but it looks like a Dactylorhiza to me

[oldnick]

From the many sheets I've seen in this style, I agree the collector is A Wallis, his Springfield being the one near Chelmsford - I've edited in.